Aquaculture News

In a world of contagions, of mad-cow disease and bird flu, where the next pandemic seems just a viral mutation away, news that a farm has been quarantined because of a disease outbreak is unnerving.

Researchers on the Burin Peninsula hope government money will help them find a way to harness ocean energy as a source of power for the aquaculture industry.

Massive erosion, rising sea levels and destruction of coconut estates due to the red palm disease have wreaked havoc in Cedros over the last decade.

A unique relationship meant to reduce conflict between environmental groups and British Columbia's largest salmon farming company has fallen apart.

Missouri fish farmers and bait shops are asking state conservation officials to reconsider a ban on selling crawfish that goes into effect Sept.

Two Mississippi State University scientists are taking on new leadership roles in the school's aquaculture program in Stoneville.

Jimmy Avery, who has served as the MSU Extension Service aquaculture specialist since 1999, is the new director of the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center.

The Department of Fisheries at the Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources is currently organising sale of fishery products at the Muara Fish Landing Complex.

Virginia has been forced to adopt stricter rules for harvesting shellfish during summer months, beginning this week, after a second case surfaced of a person getting sick from eating oysters tainted by a dangerous bacteria called vibrio.

Something fishy is afoot at Clean Seas Tuna as a mystery illness is killing its stock of Yellowtail Kingfish, adding at least $17.5 million to its full year loss.

The Sindh government's decision to invite foreign investment for the development of a 20,000-acre Fisheries Special Economic Zone in Thatta is obviously in the interest of fisheries.

Local MSP Stewart Stevenson has confirmed that new legislation on aquaculture and freshwater fisheries will be introduced in autumn 2012.

A decision by the federal government to close the Experimental Lakes Area , is a huge mistake, says the president of the Northern Ontario Aquaculture Association .

Local biologists and fishery officials will experiment this summer on a new way to control invasive northern pike populations using technologies described as a water cannon and an electric fence.

Ms Hannah Tetteh, Minister of Trade and Industry, had said real trade opportunities existed in the country and that there was the need for one to be innovative to identify the prospects.

Fears about water quality are rocketing throughout Chinese cyberspace after a Beijing environmentalist disclosed that tap water in China is contaminated with contraceptive compounds.

As Istanbul's fisheries union, among others, campaigns for more regulation in waters around Istanbul, illicit fishing has grown five-fold since 2011, by some estimates.

Bottles, plastic foam and floating buoys are just a few of the scattershot items washing ashore in Alaska, part of a wave of debris surging toward U.S. shores from the March 2011 earthquake in Japan, CNN reports.

Nutreco announces today that Wout Dekker will hand over his responsibilities as CEO on 1 August 2012 to Knut Nesse.

HANOI, May 24 -- More than 50 Vietnamese and Russian experts discussed cooperation in the fisheries sector at a seminar in the central coastal city of Nha Trang on Wednesday, Vietnam news agency reported.